Husbands

Famous quotes containing the word husbands:

“Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday
The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women,
Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives
Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden
Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons
Back now, all of them, to their local lives....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“Imp at three and wench at ‘leben
She counted her husbands to the number seben.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)